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Gazi University End of Project Seminar

The Gazi University team held an end of project seminar on 26 May 2022 for Deans, other University Administrators, Faculty and Staff at their university to find out more about the project and how to use the outputs….

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Development Counts Training Programme available via UN:SDG Learn

Our ‘Opening the Appetite’ Data Skills for Global Development Self-Study Course has been listed on the UN: SDG Learn Platform. UN SDG:Learn is a United Nations initiative that aims to bring relevant and curated learning solutions on sustainable…

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Project Close & Acknowledgements

Today marks the final day of our Development Counts project. All our resources are available on this website for the use of higher education students and staff, development professionals and other interested individuals and organisations. The project team…

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End of Project Meeting in Malta

Last week the Development Counts project team met in person for the first time since December 2019! The meeting marks the final stage of the project and was hosted by the University of Malta. The meeting was a…

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Registration for Development Counts Online Dissemination Event on 16th March 2022 Now Open!

Registration for our end of project online dissemination event has opened today.  This event will bring together global development professionals and educators involved in teaching data skills to explore the debates around data skills and the development agenda….

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Student Briefing Papers on Development Data Blind Spots Published Online

As part of the Development Counts training programme in September 2021, undergraduate students at project partner universities formed international teams to research development data blind spots and devise recommendations for how to address them. The teams worked on…

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Opening the Appetite: Data Skills for Global Development Pilot Programme, 13-17 September 2021

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Students from Gazi Üniversitesi, the University of Gloucestershire, L-Università ta’ Malta and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia took part in a pilot of the “Opening the Appetite: Data Skills for Global Development” training programme…

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Career Profile: Tom Orrell, Managing Director, DataReady Limited

Tom studied for a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations at Keele University in the UK, completed a Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Practice Training Course at the BPP Law School, and was Called to the Bar…

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Data Skills for Global Development Training Programme

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Students from Gazi Üniversitesi, the University of Gloucestershire, L-Università ta’ Malta and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia are invited to apply for the Opening the Appetite: Data Skills for Global Development training programme. This…

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Career Profile: Steve Penson, Data Scientist, Humanitarian Analysis Organisation and MapAction

Steve studied for a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography at the University of Sheffield and is now a data scientist at a humanitarian analysis organisation and MapAction. How did you get into your current line of work? I developed…

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